Maria Reidelbach is a local food activist who engages in social practice, interdisciplinary art and writing. Her current work is focused on food and agriculture in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Current projects include Stick to Local Farms,[1] an interactive map featuring local farms, The Yardavore,[2] a column about eating locally foraged and cultivated food, and the Stick to Local Farms Cookbook: Hudson Valley.[3]
Practice
Since 2003, Reidelbach has focused on interactive art and writing that engages the public. Past projects include Goofy Garden Golf, Homegrown Mini-Golf, the world's largest garden gnome and Valley of the Giants,[4] a community plan.
As an artist, she cultivates an "interaction of art and life," bringing people together in public art projects, sometimes involving found objects and donations of materials, along with recycled items collected by dumpster diving through lower Manhattan.